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"Strangers don't see you as I do," said Mrs Yeobright; "they judge from false report Well, it is a silly job, and I a can be done!" replied the girl Her lips were quivering, and tears so crowded theuish apples fro to hide her weakness

"As soon as you have finished getting the apples," her aunt said, descending the ladder, "coo for the holly There is nobody on the heath this afternoon, and you need not fear being stared at We et some berries, or Clym will never believe in our preparations"

Thoether they went through the white palings to the heath beyond The open hills were airy and clear, and the remote atmosphere appeared, as it often appears on a fine winter day, in distinct planes of illumination independently toned, the rays which lit the nearer tracts of landscape strea visibly across those further off; a stratuht was imposed on a stratum of deep blue, and behind these lay still rerey

They reached the place where the hollies grehich was in a conical pit, so that the tops of the trees were not round Thomasin stepped up into a fork of one of the bushes, as she had done under happier circumstances on many siht she began to lop off the heavily berried boughs

"Don't scratch your face," said her aunt, who stood at the edge of the pit, regarding the girl as she held on areen and scarlet masses of the tree "Will you ith ?"

"I should like to Else it would see out a bough "Not that that wouldcan alter that And that an Mrs Yeobright

"Ah, you think, 'That weak girl--how is she going to get a man to , Aunt: Mr Wildeve is not a profligate man, any more than I am an improper woman He has an unfortunate manner, and doesn't try to make people like him if they don't wish to do it of their own accord"